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Django TestCase object has no attribute 'login'

I have used selenium to test my login method and it works fine. Then, I tried to test other parts of the website. So, I needed to create a user in my test. To do that, I've used client instead of request factory (since there are middleware classes). However, I am getting the error:

AttributeError: 'ProjectListTestCase' object has no attribute 'login'

I do have a custom authentication backend to allow for email address to be used instead of username:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'phonenumber_field',
'rest_framework',

# 3rd party apps
'crispy_forms',

# Local apps 
'accounts',
...

I tried the code in the console:

>>> the_client = Client()
>>> the_client.login(email='[email protected]', password='testingPassword')
True

Here is the code in my test_views.py:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist, ValidationError
from django.test import TestCase
from django.test import RequestFactory

from model_mommy import mommy
from selenium import webdriver

from project_profile.models import Project
from user_profile.models import UserProfile

class ProjectListTestCase(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):

        # login the user
        self.login = self.client.login(email='[email protected]', password='testingPassword')
        print ('Login successful? ', self.login)          # Just to see what's going on

        self.response = self.client.get(reverse('development:list_view_developmentproject') )
        print('response: ', self.response)                # Just to see what's going on


    def test_user_login(self):           
        self.assertEqual(self.response.status_code, 200)

Why do I get the error when running the test, but using the same code in the console runs fine?

Edit 1: Changed the login and response in setUp to self.login and self.response to preserve consistency. I still get an error:

TypeError: 'AnonymousUser' object is not iterable

Edit 2: Full traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\firone\development\tests\test_views.py", line 25, in setUp
    self.response = self.client.get(reverse('development:list_view_developmentproject'))
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\test\client.py", line 536, in get
    **extra)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\test\client.py", line 340, in get
    return self.generic('GET', path, secure=secure, **r)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\test\client.py", line 416, in generic
    return self.request(**r)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\test\client.py", line 501, in request
    six.reraise(*exc_info)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\utils\six.py", line 686, in reraise
    raise value
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 41, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 187, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 185, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py", line 68, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py", line 88, in dispatch
    return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\list.py", line 160, in get
    self.object_list = self.get_queryset()
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\firone\development\views\views_main.py", line 2057, in get_queryset
    user_development_projects = Project.objects.filter(project__users = logged_in_user)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\manager.py", line 85, in manager_method
    return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\query.py", line 784, in filter
    return self._filter_or_exclude(False, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\query.py", line 802, in _filter_or_exclude
    clone.query.add_q(Q(*args, **kwargs))
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\query.py", line 1250, in add_q
    clause, _ = self._add_q(q_object, self.used_aliases)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\query.py", line 1276, in _add_q
    allow_joins=allow_joins, split_subq=split_subq,
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\query.py", line 1179, in build_filter
    self.check_related_objects(field, value, opts)
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\query.py", line 1078, in check_related_objects
    for v in value:
  File "C:\Users\EarlyCoder\Environments\firone_3\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 239, in inner
    return func(self._wrapped, *args)
TypeError: 'AnonymousUser' object is not iterable

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 1.563s

FAILED (errors=1)
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...

Edit 3: Adding DevelopmentProjectList

class DevelopmentProjectList(ListView):
    model = DevelopmentProject
    template_name = 'development/development.html'
    context_object_name = 'development_projects'



    def get_queryset(self, *args, **kwargs):
        logged_in_user = self.request.user
        user_development_projects = DevelopmentProject.objects.filter(project__users = logged_in_user)

        return user_development_projects
Solution

  • As @Iain Shelvington mentioned in this comment, you haven't assigned the variable login to self

    You should do something like this,

    class ProjectListTestCase(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        # login the user
        self.login = self.client.login(email='[email protected]', password='testingPassword')
        print('Login successful? ', self.login)  # Just to see what's going on

        self.response = self.client.get(reverse('development:list_view_developmentproject'))
        print('response: ', self.response)  # Just to see what's going on

    def test_user_login(self):
        self.assertEqual(self.response.status_code, 200)

    Update-1

    In your view, you are not enforcing the user to be logged-in. So, add LoginRequiredMixin mixin class to your view as below

    from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin


class DevelopmentProjectList(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
    ...
    # your code